And go into their very swanky hotel and social events in T-shirts - I can think of a hotel in Stockholm in 1995 that we probably embarrassed. Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways... > On Aug 4, 2023, at 11:33 AM, Christian Hopps <chopps@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> [[PGP Signed Part:Signature made by expired key AEEB741177E7BBA8 Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@xxxxxxxxx> ]] >> John, >> >>>> On Aug 2, 2023, at 4:20 PM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> According to tom petch <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> +1 for Minneapolis. >>>> >>>> <tp> >>>> Minneapolis is the only location that I can recall where I missed my connecting flight back to Europe. >>> >>> Keeping in mind that was 15 years ago, MSP is a hub for Delta and has >>> nonstops to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Seoul, and Tokyo, that might not >>> be as big a problem now. >>> >>> Seems to me that the fact that the hotel declines to bid for our business is the show stopper. >> >> I suspect that given our (that is, the IETFs) special requirements for a >> network, and how we tend to take over the common areas, I suspect we wear out >> our welcome at some venues. They probably decide we are too much trouble to deal >> with. > > At least for some hotels in the past this has been opposite the case. We could ask someone who is in a better position to know for sure, but I'm pretty sure we fixed more than 1 hotel's wifi setup/network for them. And this is totally anecdotal, but I've heard from various employees over the years that they loved us. Apparently we are pretty nice as a group -- even if we do odd things like sit on the floors of their Distinguished Hotel (thinking of the Peabody here :) > > Thanks, > Chris. > > >> >> Bob >> >> >> [[End of PGP Signed Part]] >
